Yes, honestly, The X-Factor. Because here you can see Joanna Page and hubby James Thornton in cartoon form, auditioning for the Christmas X-Factor. It’s a Sing-Derella version because they were both singing in the panto Cinderella over Christmas.
Year: 2009
Sitting Tennant
Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rullsenberg): The Next Doctor
Today’s bonus Sitting Tennant is from Ms Rullsenberg, whose picture of a sedentary David Tennant I so cruelly left at home last week. It’s from The Next Doctor, I think, although to be honest I have absolutely no idea. Clearly though, it’s an imitation of the famous cantina scene from Star Wars, although from where the Doctor’s going to produce his gun, I wouldn’t like to say.
That gives us the following leader board for the picture competition:
- Jaradel, Rullsenberg: 1
Ooh, exciting. You wait ’til it hots up like the caption competition because it’s all go there. Marie, taking to heart the ruling that back-related captions are no longer topical, went for a Hudson river comment, earning herself a bonus half mark. But it was Rev/Views’ venture in surrealism that earned him the title of wittiest caption composer this time round, with the associated double points prize, taking him into joint second place.
That means the scoreboard now stands as follows:
- Marie: 4.5
- Jane Henry, Toby, Rev/Views: 3
- Aaron, Persephone, Rullsenberg: 2
- Jaradel: 1
As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points.
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.
Dick Heads
Dick Heads (from Jane Henry): the Vicar of Dibley
This week’s Dick Head comes from Jane Henry and features Richard Armitage in The Vicar of Dibley. He appears to be doing an impression of Atlas, holding the weight of the heavens on his shoulders – or his head, at least. No hat, I’m afraid, so no bonuses, but I’m sure the haiku and captions will be forthcoming all the same.
We have another two people’s Dick Heads in the queue, but if you want to submit your own pic, leave a URL below or email me. Remember, extra credit if you have a picture of Richard Armitage in a hat.
Russell Tovey and Julie Gardner talk Doctor Who
In advance of my Being Human preview, which should pop up either today or tomorrow depending on work, I thought I’d give you a few Doctor Who nuggets that emerged from the Q&A following the showing of the first episode at the BFI on Friday.
Present – as advertised – was Russell Tovey, who appeared in the Christmas special The Voyage of the Damned and was once tipped as a front-runner for the part of the Doctor by Russell T Davies no less, and Matthew Bouch, producer of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Also present, but not as advertised since it was originally going to be BBC3 controller Danny Cohen, was Julie Gardner, head of drama for BBC Wales and exec producer for Doctor Who.
There wasn’t that much said about Who, for obvious reasons, but a few little anecdotes emerged.
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Monday’s Ofcom giveth, Ofcom taketh away news
Doctor Who
- Michelle Ryan?
- Filming in Dubai for special?
Film
- Roland Emmerich to produce adaptation of Asimov’s Foundation series
- Keanu to play lead in anime adaptation Cowboy Bebop
- Trailer for Paul Rudd’s I Love You, Man
- Trailers for Planet 51, Crank 2 and Outlander
Theatre
- Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup join Stewart and McKellen in Waiting for Godot
- Speed-the-plow producers file grievance against Jeremy Piven
- West End doing nicely
British TV
- Ofcom wants ITV to take over GMTV’s breakfast slot…
- …but fines ITV £220,000 for not making enough shows outside London
- Britannia High axed
US TV
- Chuck‘s dad to be played by Scott Bakula
- Patricia Rae to guest on Chuck, too
- Matthew Weiner to continue to oversee Mad Men for seasons 3 and 4
- Family Guy writer developing slacker comedy for ABC
- Tom Connolly gets recurring role on Lost
- Casting on The Karenskys
- Photos of Jon Hamm on 30 Rock
- NBC cuts Kath and Kim order
- Amy Ryan returning to The Office